Common Fallacies of anti Capitalist Trumpistas

The idea of Public Space. If anyone opens up a restaurant or business which invites people in they do not abrogate their property rights! It does not become a publically owned space! It is not public property. One hesitates to point out what should be the bleedin obvious but with the faux capitalist Trumps it seems one has to.

They have hijacked capitalism  and turned it into statism! In the very name of capitalism they are destroying capitalism by subverting its whole meaning and turning it completely on its head. It hardly needs pointing out that this is potentially a million times more destructive to the cause of capitalism than anything the Left could do or dream up.

Is this a deliberate act of sabotage? I think not. It is born of ignorance because no one has been taught what capitalism actually means and it is so regularly conflated with statism by default more than intent. Only those few who have read Ayn Rand's work on the subject can have a clue how far away from capitalism the Trumpistas are, albeit as I say for the most part unwittingly.Although I could be being over generous and charitable  -perhaps caused the the large coffee just consumed!

I confess to my own ignorance on this subject but we were just not taught this stuff in schools and the culture is so anti capitalist the topic is never discussed in the media and economists and commentators are generally ignorant on the subject themselves -apart from their given anti capitalist bias to begin with of course.

The schools universities and institutions have equally defaulted on honest research and discussion on this matter and I can only recommend those who truly want to hear both sides of the argument check out Ayn Rand's collection of essays entitled Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal in which the common fallacies on the subject are discussed such as Anti Trust, Monopolies (written by Alan Greenspan) and another by Nathaniel Branden.

In brief the same principle of private property as cited in my opening sentence obtains in the cybersphere. An internet company that facilitates the expression of views and opinions is not owned by anyone who chooses to use that platform! This would be the case if you chose to hold forth on a bus or train -you would not own or have property claims on those modes of transport. Using a service does not mean you own it or can dictate the terms of its use to the owners! Or claim that it is somehow a public service ie to claim that private property is now appropriated as a collective state owned cooperative . By what bizarre logic. This is communism and the Trumpists think it is Capitalism! Mind blowing.

Now you may think the owners are of a leftist orientation and I would say you are probably right for as technologically genius as the Sillicone valley entrepreneurs are they are without doubt liberal in their politics. But that is their right! They own the software! It is their baby. If they want to exclude or marginalise Right wing websites that is their prerogative!

Then we are told it is a monopoly so the state has to come in and break it up. This has been said since the industrial revolution and is a complete fallacy and simply an argument for state control and regulation, the ploy of all statists who incidentally do not feel the same about State Monopolies -the only sort that exist, in health,education etc.

If someone makes a world shattering invention that is turned into a billion dollar industry should not the sole rights to that belong exclusively to him or her? To say it should be 'broken up' ,taken over by the State is a monstrous act of state appropriation and piracy -pure communism. Hence the Anti Trust laws, the Sherman Act and other collectivist anti capitalist legislation that has destroyed business and entrpreneurship and turned businessmen into the enemy instead of the saviours of the human race.

If I were to invoke the deity at at all I would do it in honour of the creators of our modern world and pronounce: God bless Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, your inventions are the most important step forward in the human race's long journey to the light since Guttenbourg - Revolutionary - you are the heroes, not the villains as you are portrayed by envy eaten mediocrities, and we salute you.